Back to work then.....

Yeah alright, I'll come in to work.  I'm not doing anything though. 

Tomorrow for me, oversee stock check although my guys should have it under control ready for the external audit on the 2nd.

Starting to wish I'd written a to-do list last week.

Office shut so don't go back until 2nd, but the weather is rubbish so cba to get out on the bike. 

Storm Gerrit is rattling the windows here on Floor 6 mind.

I hope the first aid guy is worth his salt should there be any wind related accidents.

I was due in, but messaged boss to say I’ll do tomorrow and Friday instead due to crap weather.

Back to work and a major product recall of Mrs Kirkhams Lancashire, not my job deal to with it but someone gave the other sites Technical Manager the week off :/ . 200 customers to call, yay.

Back to work for 3 days, teams on standby to deal with whatever Storm Gerrit delivers.

Back to work, but from home, so not too bad. But yeah, body clock way out from 12am - 11am in bed over the last 4 days! (Yes, she's quite demanding 😛 )

Nope not going back till early January.

[rant on]<br />I am seriously disenchanted with work at present and could quite happily never go back. It’s just even more crap after crap with little reward in the public sector recently.

I have some griefy work next year which I have volunteered for again and and I’m currently (from 04.30 this morning) thinking why ****ing bother? I don’t get any reward, and little if any recognition from management, for the extra stress just the same shitty pay rise and no pay progression (still waiting for the 2023 pay increase which may arrive in February and my employers refused to pay the £1500 every other civil servant got this year to ease the pain of inflation).

[rant off]

Travel home from Mother in Laws today and off to Ireland tomorrow morning for the rest of the break, can’t wait.

Wrote a task list before Christmas. Back in Manchester city centre office, 6 Music on the ear pods, coffee on the go, and working my way through it while it's quiet.

Yeah alright, I’ll come in to work. I’m not doing anything though.

Pretty much this. I'm in the office, I'm logged in, but I can't see me doing much. Hence being on STW...

I am seriously disenchanted with work at present and could quite happily never go back. It’s just even more crap after crap with little reward in the public sector recently.

Absolutely. Which is why, now I've sorted out emails and priorities, I'm having 10 minutes to see if I made the edit.....(warning, presenting style may not be to everyone's taste!)

I woke up in a panic this morning about going to work.
Then I remembered I haven't been to work for four years so no need to panic.
I did get up at the same time as Mrsstu as she's working today.

I’ve got a week and a half to go and am dreading it already. To make it worse the interview I had to try and get away from it was postponed from late December until late January so the torture will be prolonged!

WFH - so I "started" at 9 - spent the last hour researching and ordering a new fridge/freezer after the freezer compartment packed up yesterday. Got some mandatory training to get finished off for the new year, other than that it's just some housekeeping after a busy last few months.

2nd day back today, those pesky patients want their specimens processed apparently 🤷‍♂️

I'm not back until the 2nd January, which is really annoying because the company decided to close for the week, and I get to loose 3 days holiday to boot.

WFH too, just like some others.  it's ferocious conditions up here in NE Scotland though, so glad I don't have to go anywhere in that.  Sleet, very strong gusts hitting the house and huge amounts of water visible, running down the fields.

It's quite hard to concentrate, just a few emails sent and a bit of reading, with the storm raging out there; time for an early stove, I think.

I'm WFH, didn't adjust from normal schedule so wasn't a bit issue getting up. Went to the gym to make a start on making my clothes baggy for a trip to the states in March. Been laid up with a cold for a last week, the rest of the family tested positive for COVID but it seems I swerved it. 

Meant the MiL couldn't come for Christmas dinner, shame.

Christmas off is a novelty. 

Work?  its a 4 letter word!  Don't swear at me

Aye Drac - 35 out of 40 that I worked

You don’t miss it then TJ?

Its shite this.  No ones working.  But I'm feeling bad cos I'm not being uber proactive.

I'm also knackered which doesn't help.

When I worked I usually volunteered for Twixmas (as my HR dept insisted on calling it) - dress down late start and the novelty of a seat on the train, not much happening in the office so good time for a clear out of the previous months’ paperwork, leisurely lunch maybe taking in the sales, then early finish.  And the holiday everyone else was using up on family visits or “just because” I had saved for a break in the busy times of the year.

Back in this morning at 6.30 and I'm working right through till new year now.

I don't mind though, this is my last full time working Christmas. Retirement beckons in April 😎

WFH/parents in Fife, lots of weather going on but I’d rather take the time off in summer. Annoying as very little room to be working here and my parents have got light bulbs so dim in order to save pennies on leccy bills that I can hardly see.

Back down South on New Year’s Day to get back to normality, non rubbish food and something on the telly box that is newer than 30 years old. Heaven.

I am seriously disenchanted with work at present and could quite happily never go back. It’s just even more crap after crap with little reward in the public private sector recently.

This, starting my "demoted" (Mrs K says not to look at it the way but I'm back as staff so er...) position next Tuesday though, was at Swinley today.   I really cant wait to get into account plans, oh yeah....

Starting to wish I’d written a to-do list last week.

Something Paul Daniels always did, except his was a Ta-Da list.

Work?
Sod that.
Retire.

Retire.

Which I’ve done. I did actually enjoy my job, especially the last year of it, and I’d have happily carried on, but circumstances dictated the site was shut down and I was made redundant, and retiring was the sensible decision, especially once I started to sort through my state pension and a bunch of additional workplace pensions I’ve accumulated over many years. What was a daunting prospect has turned out to be far better than I expected, especially as my mortgage was paid off three years ago.

A 5am alarm with the weather like it is was never much fun, though.

Hideous weather. 4.30 start so I could get a ride in to soften the blow. Didn’t forget my password. Did forget how to use the aeropress.

5:30 alarm today to signal the first day back for me since 11th December. Bracing myself to loose the will by lunchtime.

Second "back to work" for me today after last week off. I cracked last might and filtered out the emails to delete.

On the train as I type. Trying not to count the days to my next week off for Feb half term.